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Tenet Healthcare Corp (THC): Today's Featured Health Care Winner

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Tenet Healthcare (
THC) pushed the Health Care sector higher today making it today's featured health care winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.5%. By the end of trading, Tenet Healthcare rose 13 cents (2.1%) to $6.31 on average volume. Throughout the day, 9.1 million shares of Tenet Healthcare exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $6.11-$6.44 after having opened the day at $6.11 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $6.18. Other companies within the Health Care sector that increased today were:
Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company (
SKBI), up 19.7%,
Spherix (
SPEX), up 17.5%,
Savient Pharmaceuticals (
SVNT), up 16.8%, and
Prima Biomed Ltd. ADR (
PBMD), up 11.5%.

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Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, owns and operates acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and related health care facilities in the United States. Tenet Healthcare has a market cap of $2.59 billion and is part of the
health services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 47.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 21.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Tenet Healthcare a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Tenet Healthcare as a
sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.